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Sanicula peckiana
Also called Peck's Sanicle
Peck's blacksnakeroot is an uncommon perennial wildflower of the carrot family, native to the Klamath Mountains of southern Oregon and northern California. It is a plant for dry chaparral and woodland, often on serpentine soil, and is best grown with good drainage and minimal summer water.
Sanicula peckiana is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae known by the common names Peck's blacksnakeroot and Peck's sanicle. It is native to the Klamath Mountains of southern Oregon and far northern California, where it grows in chaparral and woodland habitat, often on serpentine soils. It is a perennial herb growing to a maximum height near 40 centimeters. The leaves are simple or divided into a number of lobes, the edges generally with sharp teeth. The inflorescence is made up of one or more heads of bisexual and male-only flowers with tiny, curving, yellow petals. The fruits are borne singly or in heads of up to five, each fruit covered in bumpy tubercles and sometimes with prickles near the tip.
Sanicula epipactis · Footsteps of spring · Sharptooth blacksnakeroot · Azores Sanicle · Poison sanicle · Purple sanicle · Canadian blacksnakeroot · Pacific blacksnakeroot · Wood sanicle · Northern sanicle · Hoffmann's blacksnakeroot · Coastal blacksnakeroot
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sanicula peckiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
